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Re: infer GCC_REQD from USE_LANGUAGES (was: nghttp2 broken)



On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 03:59:24PM +0100, Edgar Fuß wrote:
> In particular, joerg@ repeatedly turned down proposed solutions with his
> I-know-better-attitude -- he may in fact really know better, but failed to 
> explain what the particular problem with a proposed solution was.

Mixing GCC versions doesn't work well. That's exactly what you end up
with when non-leaf packages start to randomly require higher versions.
The only reasonable solution is to actually just require a version
that's new enough for your package set up front and stick with it.

Joerg


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